Our good friend Randy K of Western Flat Track (formerly CFTA) is promoting a race in Hanford, CA tonight and is hosting a round of the 2018 Superhooligans series. Randy runs a great amateur event and the RSD-promoted Superhooligan series is putting on some amazing events, so keep an eye out for both championships to see if they're happening in your vicinity. I thought it was interesting to view the two different approaches of the flat track event poster, each promoter thinkin

Photo: Heidi Lieberman Jimmy Hill’s business card reads ‘Can backflip, will travel’. He’s a moto stunter for hire, travelling the world, risking his neck, always with a smile under that bumfluff ‘stache. He was also the King of Dirt Quake USA one particular year when he turned up in his dad’s 40-year-old leathers, won the jump style competition on his father’s flat track Yamaha 500, a bike that hadn’t run for years (and his dad didn't know he'd 'borrowed'), then won the Super

The landscape of, let's call it, alternative motorcycling has changed so radically over the last few years that when a friend and Sideburn contributor, Ryan Quickfall creates a motorcycle zombie-themed beer can for an independent brewery, it doesn't cause much more than a 'Oh, that's cool'. If this had happened ten years ago, when Sideburn started, I'd have been freaking out that someone tied the strands of indie motorcycling, art, beer, zombies together. Now tie-ins with lef

In less than three years, the Super Hooligan National Championship has reimagined what a flat track focussed event can be. This weekend, there are a total of four hooligan races all happening around the Sturgis area, including one at the Buffalo Chip, which is also hosting the next AFT round, a TT race tomorrow. Then, in just two weekends time, Roland Sands Designs is promoting another mould-breaker and making the hooligans the two-wheeled focal point of the Moto Bay Classic